Why is EVERYONE Buying This Gaming Case? - Corsair 4000D Airflow

The airflow case market has come back *very* strong in recent years – and the Corsair 4000D Airflow is the clear best seller. What exactly makes it stand out among the crowd?

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:54 History of $100 cases & Corsair
3:03 What makes the 4000D great
4:29 Where there is room for improvement
4:54 COOOOOOLING
5:32 More things that are great!
6:05 More points of concern
7:50 The competition

[MrSeetz]

The 'inoffensive' looks were greatly understated. Part of the 4000D's appeal is that you don't need to hide it and it works with most home styles; the PC case equivalent of white shaker cabinets.

[Rdebo_]

The 4000D is just great at everything and cheap enough. Really wish I got it at release instead of the o11 mini, even though I think the o11 mini looks better.

[Matthew-vlcd]

The 4000D is great for a few big reasons:

1. It's affordable without being cheap
2. Corsair is is a large, familiar company
3. There is A LOT of YouTube content readily available showing how well rounded the case is overall, along with building guides to help you along the way

The vast majority of people buying this case are first-time builders (just like me) who especially appreciate the plentiful content and building guides.

[flackenstien]

When I was upgrading my build and moving it into a new case, I did a ton of research on what case options there were. I looked painstakingly for weeks..
The 4000D just has all the features you could want.
It's affordable. It's spacious. It has giant cable routing holes for hassle-free build assembly (this is my favorite part). Airflow, with an easy to access and clean dust filter. Great cable management routes that aren't restrictive. It has a good aesthetic that is stylish but not offensive (it matches my taste in industrial furniture), I have the black version. Easy to open and close back panels (could be better, but my last Phanteks case was so bad here).

It's just so convenient in ways that aren't gimmicks. Now, if only they can put this quality into their newer mice..

[bluspoid]

When I was getting ready to build my PC, I spent weeks researching what components I should buy. To my surprise, the case was the hardest decision. I wanted a case that was from a reputable brand, was easy to build in, and had excellent cooling. It took me so long to find a case that I liked. The first time I saw the Corsair 4000D airflow, I knew that was the case I was going to buy. I have had no complaints and I recommend this case to anyone building a new PC.

[murcie]

The 4000D Airflow is an absolutely great case, I just wish I would've gone for the 5000D for future water cooling. The 4000D "can" have a full liquid cooling loop in it, but then it'll be packed to the edge, 5000D has more room for Reservoirs and tubing routing.

[anepicotter]

I’m personally not a fan of the mesh panel but I love the general look of the 4000 series cases. They have a clean rectangle shape with only a few accenting angles in the front panel to allow some airflow when you’re using solid front panels. I have the 4000x in my room and it somehow doesn’t really look out of place right next to my bookshelf

[Kochiha]

This was a nice CASE study, heh. And it goes to show how far a little simple research can go without sacrificing on aesthetics...even though you're right, a LOT of these cases are very same-y looking, but thankfully this does still mean that if you can find an older case on clearance, it'd be worth picking up because it'll still be compatible with a lot of modern systems.

[awesam]

7:42 can we just appreciate that every single frame of this edit is worthy of being a profile picture?

[HazardCrossbones]

I feel like you missed the one MASSIVE issue with the case: Somehow they decided to have only one USB A port on the front panel, even though the motherboard header is always for two ports.
Which is frankly stupid and really impractical for any real world usage. The UBS-C port is a nice touch, which partially saves it.

[samjofar]

The 4000D was almost perfect for me all around. The only thing that forced me to upsize to the 5000D was the unfortunate clearance issue of my top mounted kraken aio and the motherboard vrm heatsink on my strix x570. Literally a couple of millimeters to perfection lol

[azraelga]

I have the 5000D and man it’s such a great case, the airflow, the amount of rgb I can add and so much space makes this case amazing.

[Max_Mercer]

I went with the 5000d. I needed something a bit larger than the 4000d and I am extremely happy with it. Easiest cable management I've had yet! And I've built in an 011 Dynamic XL before.

[homeboi]

It's kinda sad how still, to this day, people complain that the Meshify C front filter is hard to access. All you have to do is slide out the bottom filter and push the single clip from the bottom to pop out the front filter.
Fractal needs to put out a PSA to fix this misconception.

[DarKNesS]

I just bought the 5000D Airflow yesterday, upgrading from the stuffed 275R. Best building experience I've ever had, this case should be the golden standard for how to manufacture a PC case.

[chrismorgan]

All the cases you mentioned at the end are what I was looking at when buying my case. Really liked how clean the 4000D airflow in black with tinted glass looked. And it was the cheapest one at the time that I knew my aio would fit in for sure. Its been really good and easy to upgrade in, wish the basement was a hair bigger.

[GTechOfficial]

When I first built my PC in 2015 I used a Corsair 450D. Absolutely LOVED that case and when I upgraded to a 460X it just didn't feel the same. The 4000D is what I believe is the perfect spiritual successor to my original 450D, and now it's holding over $4, 000 worth of hardware.

[MrJobocan]

With the PC I'm currently building, I had narrowed down my case choices to like 4 cases. I didn't end up with a 4000D Airflow, but it was right there as one of the top choices. It's just obviously a good case.

My other choices were the TD500, Pure Base 500DX and DF700 Flux. All kinda similar cases in many ways.

[jkell]

I went from a Corsair 220T to the 5000D Airflow. Love it. The 4000D just hits that perfect in between. Not huge like the 5000, but not too small.

[AlexanderPavel]

I went with the Lancool-II-Mesh Performance. Really nice case with fantastic airflow and plenty of room. The 4000D was my second choice when I was looking though.